Qs from book

• Which of the following is an acellular microorganism lacking a nucleus?

  Bacterium
• Which of the following is a microorganism that contains organelles

  A.) Prion

  B.) Bacterium

  C.) Fungus

  D.) Virus

  C.) Fungus
• Which of these organisms do not contain DNA

  Prions
• When a hypothesis has been thorougly supported by long-term study and data, it is considered

  Theory
• Which of these types of organisms is least likely to be identified to the genus level with light microscopy?

  A.) Bacteria

  B.) Protozoa

  C.) Fungus

  D.) Helminths

  A.) Bacteria
• A fastidious organism must br growm on what type of medium

  Enriched
• Viruses are commonly grown in/on

  Animal cells or tissues
• Diagnosis of infections in a hospitalized person usually requires

  Culture of samples from the patient
• If the gram stain result is unclear, which of the ff should be considered?

  • Getting a new sample
  • Restaining the same sample
  • Identify if the microbe may actually be a gram variable

  All of the above
• The best descriptive term for the resident microbiota is

  Mutualistic
• Which of the following are virulence factors?

  • Toxins
  • Enzymes
  • Capsules

  All of the above
• When the resident microbiota prevents the establishment of a pathogen, it is called

  Microbial antagonism
• Most microbial exotoxins would be created with the process of

  A.) DNA replication

  B.) Protein synthesis

  C.) Mutation

  D.) Fatty acid synthesis

  B.) Protein synthesis
• The ___ is the time between an encounter with a pathogen and the first symptoms

  Incubation period
• Which of the following is both a reservoir and a transmitter

  A.) House fly

  B.) Mosquito

  Mosquito
• Diseases widely eradicated

  • Polio
  • Leprosy
  • Parastic worm infection